Be prepared Quote by Sandra Brown

If you wish to be a writer, write.

— Epictetus

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

— Sandra Brown

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

— Paul Harding

You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.

— Paul Theroux

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

— Albert Brooks

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing,…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

— Doris Lessing

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting…

— Kate DiCamillo

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

— Dorothy Day

“Dedication. DEDICATION. That is the only way to become a writer. Write every day. Write until your fingers bleed, your eyes bleed, your soul…

— Belle DiMonté

To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the deadline come first before anything else.…

— Virginia Henley